O’Driscoll added: “We’ve always had periods in games where we’ve relied on lady luck a little bit but you could say that about every team in the Championship.

“We prepared well and didn’t try to take anything for granted. Perhaps we over prepared, I don’t know.

“You look back and try and pin-point things you should have done better or shouldn’t have done at all.

“But there’s a danger you can be over critical or over analyse.

“At 1-1 I thought we might be ok but the frailties we showed from the start never really went away.

“We hid them a little bit by making the changes that we did but they were always bubbling under the surface.”

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